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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

There’s a temptation to dismiss it as a mere nuisance; companies deep into ‘digital transformation,’ in particular, might be lulled into this sort of apathy. In 2011, total cryptocurrency value was about $10 billion. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Or you can steal them from a digital wallet.

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